I refused Dick, and lied to you, so that I might have more time to think over what I really wanted to do." Instinctively she had counted on rousing Barney's jealousy in order to throw him off the track of her real thoughts.

She succeeded.
"I can tell you what you're going to do!" Barney flung at her with fierce mastery.

"You're not going to put over a sure-enough marriage with any Dick Sherwood! When there's that kind of a marriage, I'm going to be the man! And you're going to go right straight ahead with our old plan! Dick'll propose again if you give him half a chance.

And when he does, you say 'yes'! Understand?
That's what you're going to do!" There was no safety in openly defying Barney.

And as a matter of fact what he had ordered was what, in the shifting currents of her thoughts, the steady momentum of her old ambitions and purposes had been pushing her toward.